A New African Elite

Place in the Making of a Bridge Generation

von Deborah Pellow

276 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Focusing on a sub-set of the Dagomba of northern Ghana, this book looks at the first generation to go through secondary school in the north. After university and post-graduate education, they relocate to Accra, the capital, hundreds of miles south. They crossed social and physical space and have become cosmopolitan while holding on to tradition and attachment to their home town. This bridge generation are patrons to those living up north. This book charts their path into elite status and argues that they use the tools gained through education and social connections to influence politics back home.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781836954095
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.01.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books